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"You mean that Dorothea would have to take her chance." "She needn't know anything about it yet." "You couldn't keep it from her forever." "No. But she'll probably marry soon. After that she'll understand things better." "That is, she'll understand the position in which you've been placed that you could hardly have acted otherwise." "I don't want to go into definitions.

Dorothea, busy in her boudoir, felt a glow of pleasure at the sight of her sister so soon after the revelation of her intended marriage. She had prefigured to herself, even with exaggeration, the disgust of her friends, and she had even feared that Celia might be kept aloof from her. "O Kitty, I am delighted to see you!" said Dorothea, putting her hands on Celia's shoulders, and beaming on her.

Mr. Bargrave's chambers in Gray's Inn were at no time more remarkable for cleanliness than other like apartments in the same locality; but the dust lies inch-thick now in all places where dust can lie, because that Dorothea, more moping and tearful than ever, has not the heart to clean up, no, nor even to wash her own hands and face in the afternoon as heretofore.

Casaubon is a good fellow and young young enough. These charitable people never know vinegar from wine till they have swallowed it and got the colic. However, if I were a man I should prefer Celia, especially when Dorothea was gone. The truth is, you have been courting one and have won the other. I can see that she admires you almost as much as a man expects to be admired.

Little Dorothea Macmahon was sent to England with a native nurse, and placed under the care of her maternal relatives; and Henry Dunbar's beautiful wife became queen of the best society in the city of palaces, by the right of her own rank and her husband's wealth. Henry Dunbar loved her desperately, as even a selfish man can sometimes love for once in his life.

What do you mean?” she repeated, embarrassed and indignant. “I should think that my violin is more than a pastime.” Daniel got up, walked over to her, took the bow gently from her hands, seized it by both ends, and broke it in two. Dorothea screamed, and looked at him in hopeless consternation.

Philippina opened her mouth and eyes as wide as she could when she saw Dorothea standing before the mirror, stripped to the hips, studying the symmetry of her body with a seriousness that no one had ever noticed in her before. Dorothea became coldly indifferent toward her child; it seemed that she had entirely forgotten that she was a mother.

"And when have you ever seen Polykarp in such a mantle?" asked Dorothea. "When the gods visit the daughters of men," replied the centurion, "they have always made choice of strange disguises. Why should not a perfumed Alexandrian gentleman transform himself for once into one of those rough fools on the mountain?

I suppose you admire a man with the complexion of a cochon de lait." "Dodo!" exclaimed Celia, looking after her in surprise. "I never heard you make such a comparison before." "Why should I make it before the occasion came? It is a good comparison: the match is perfect." Miss Brooke was clearly forgetting herself, and Celia thought so. "I wonder you show temper, Dorothea."

"And you have honestly done so for ours!" cried Dorothea. "For ours," repeated Petrus, giving the words the strongest accent of his deep voice. Two are stronger than one, and it is long since we ceased to say 'I' in discussing any question concerning the house or the children; and both have been touched by to-day's events." "The senate will not support you in constructing the road?"